In a global economy where the best jobs follow talent -- whether in Calcutta or Cleveland -- we need to do everything we can to encourage that same kind of passion, make it easier for more young people to blaze a new trail.

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And then there was the Cliburn style a luscious "magnolia blossom" sound (in the words of one Texas patron), infused with a kind of grand Romantic passion that had been all but drained out of students in the conformist programs of Soviet schools.

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You can apply the kind of passion that Herb and Dorothy Vogel did when they were accumulating their art collection.

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So you know, that - my passion for that could actually be, you know, kind of brought to life in that way.

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Kot's passion is given a special kind of quirkiness by the fact that he addresses the camera sporting a huge Afro hairdo and 1970s shades that would make funk musician Bootsy Collins look like he were in his Sunday best.

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